jeallen01
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Here's something for you to ponder on - a "virtual" pint for the first one to reach the right conclusion and solution (and it's actually quite "simple") because I think other people could maybe fall into the same trap.
I'll start with the basic situation, and then drop a few clues as we go along.
Over the last few days, and then again yesterday morning, I was trying to uninstall a number of unwanted programmes (notably Avast Free A/V which must have accidently got side-loaded with something else!) using
- first, the Windows Control Panel "Programmes & Features" route, but that was not very successful
- second, Revo uninstaller - again not very successful
- thirdly the uninstall feature in IOLO System Mechanic Pro which I had never tried before, but didn't seem to do very much either and so I aborted that.
Everything then seemed OK at the time, although the laptop screen went rather dim whilst the extended desktop on the monitor was fine.
Rebooted the m/c to try to fix the laptop screen issue - only to find that almost nothing now worked (Office with a message that the licence details could not be confirmed, and the network adapters and connections didn't connect). Same thing happened on several more reboots .
- and then I did some more things, but I leave those for the next clue after your first thoughts/guesses!
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I'll start with the basic situation, and then drop a few clues as we go along.
Over the last few days, and then again yesterday morning, I was trying to uninstall a number of unwanted programmes (notably Avast Free A/V which must have accidently got side-loaded with something else!) using
- first, the Windows Control Panel "Programmes & Features" route, but that was not very successful
- second, Revo uninstaller - again not very successful
- thirdly the uninstall feature in IOLO System Mechanic Pro which I had never tried before, but didn't seem to do very much either and so I aborted that.
Everything then seemed OK at the time, although the laptop screen went rather dim whilst the extended desktop on the monitor was fine.
Rebooted the m/c to try to fix the laptop screen issue - only to find that almost nothing now worked (Office with a message that the licence details could not be confirmed, and the network adapters and connections didn't connect). Same thing happened on several more reboots .
- and then I did some more things, but I leave those for the next clue after your first thoughts/guesses!
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